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MOTHER WANTS HER BABES MRS. B. R. TILLMAN, JR., APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT. She Was Convalescing Prom Serious Illness and Did Not Know of the Plans. In the State supreme court this morning Lucy Dugas Tillman, wife ? of B. R. Tillman, Jr., will bring habeas corpus proceedings for the recovery of her infant children Douschka and Sarah. It is entirely prob able that there will follow one of the most interesting legal controversies in the history of the State. Mrs. Tillman will bring the action against her husband's parents, Senator B. R. Tillman and his wife, who are now in possession of the children. Her attorneys last night refused to give out any information, not that they oppose publicity, but because they wish for the records to be presented in court before any newspaper publication. Mrs. Tillman, since her alleged desertion, has been making her home in this city with her nearest of male kin, Dr. Francis W. Pickens Butler. She is the granddaughter of F. W. Pickens, "war governor" of South Carolina and the minister to Russia under President Buchanan. To Gov. and Mrs. Pickens was born in St. Petersburg, in the palace of the Romanoffs, a girl baby, for whom the v czarina stood godmother, and she was called Douschka, meaning "darling." This woman, afterwards beloved by the people of South Carolina, married Dr. Dugas, of Augusta, Ga., the father of Mrs. Tillman. The Pickens family had long been among the most influential in the State. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., were married December 23, 1903, and parted in November 1908. Just why is not yet announced officially, but Mrs. Tillman's relatives stated that her husband drank to excess and was very unkind to her. In February of last year, after a separation of three months, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., began living together again, and this was supposed to be a happy ending of the quarrel. But in December, while they were 0 living in Washington, Mrs. Tillman had a sudden and desperate illness. Her husband, it is said, provided no nurse for her and showed no proper f A Vl or aiicuuuuo iu uvi. On the first day of her convalescence he came to the apartments and asked to take the two children to see their grandmother. The wrife assented, but the children protested and had to be forced to go to their grand. mother. This was on December 3, and Mrs. Tillman has not seen her babies since that hour. In the after> noon Tillman came back without them. He told his wife that their grandmother had taken them and had gone to South Carolina with the little ones. A few days thereafter Mrs. Tillman was informed by attorneys for Senator Tillman that the father of the children had made and recorded a regular deed in which the custody of the children is given to the grandparents until the little girls become of age. The deed on file with the clerk of court at Edgefield shows | that young Tillman, after alleging that his wife's inability and unsuitability to raise the children properly, S"dmits that he, too, is unable to assume the responsibility. It has been known in Columbia for some time that Mrs. Tillman's lawers have been getting affidavits from the best citizens of Edgefield to show that she is a loving and painstaking mother and that she is financially responsible having a plantation which brings an annual rental of over $1,000. The affidavits will declare that the mother is far more suited to raise the children than their grandparents, who are away from home half the time. Mrs. Tillman is named for her grandmother, Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the belle of the Virginia fashionable summer resorts before the war. Her husband was war governor and in her honor there was fitted out a troop known through the war as the Holcombe Legion. She was said to have been the most beautiful woman of the South at that period. Her daughter, Douschka, was equally as much of a belle in South Carolina after the war. Of the once distinguished family, but the two daughters remain, Mrs. Sheppard and Mrs. Tillman. The late Gen. m. u. Butler was an uncle of Mrs. Tillman, and he was the political opponent of Senator Tillman in the bitter campaign for the United States senate in 1894. Another interesting feature is that the sons of B. R. Tillman and J. C. Sheppard, who opposed each other for governor in 1892, have married sisters. B. R. Tillman, Jr., is clerk to Senator Tillman, on the Five Civilized Tribes committee. For several years he was his father's private secretary but resigned in 1908. Last year he returned to Washington and took his present position with his father's committee.?The State. Senator Tillman Comments. Washington, Jan. 23.?Senator Tillman when seen to-night and in* K - j formed of the proposed suit against I him and his son for the possession J of his grandchildren was not surj prised. He did not seem to be disj turbed about it. The two little girls. Douschka and Sarah Stark, were playing about him when the reporters visited him. He talked freely about the case, taking care to send the two children out of the room to play. Concerning the cause and circumstances of the affair he said to-night: "My son and his wife have been twice separated and are now living apart. She is in South Carolina. They disagreed last February but later were reconciled and at my suggestion went West intending to remain. A few weeks ago they again disagreed. Mrs. Tillman left their apartments here in Washington and after waiting for three days he took these little girls to my wife who was then in Washington. They went with her to our home in South Carolina. '"Finding that his wife showed no inclination to return to him, my son deeded the children to me. Under the law of South Carolina this may be done by a father for the good of his children, or by the wife in case the father is not living. That is why they are now with me. "They are two of the brightest little girls I have ever seen, and my sole interest in the matter is to have them properly cared for and guarded. Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., has been told by eminent counsel that she can not recover the children." Senator and Mrs. Tillman, his two daughters, and the two grandchildren ? ? ~ ?1 ?" 4 Dnlf Aiir ZlVe 111 HII Upui'LIIlKllL ill mc uauuui. When the young couple had their separation for the second time last December, Mrs. Tillman, wife of the senator, was at the Normandie. Young B. R. Tillman took the children there and they were taken to Trenton, being brought here again since. RE-EXACTED TRAGEDY ASLEEP. Fugitive From Justice Caught in Novel Manner. Statesboro, Ga., January 20.?Because he re-enacted in his sleep, as is alleged, the scenes of a double murder committed October 11, 1898, in this county, in which Deputy Sheriff Donaldson and J. L. Kennedy, members of a posse were killed, Benjamin Jones, alias Andrew Watson, is a prisoner in the hands of the Baltimore police, it was learned here to-day. Mollie Gowans, a negro woman, it is said, told the story of Jones's queer sleep actions. She declared that he even mentioned the names of the two slain white men and went through the motions of shooting them. Donaldson and Kennedy were pursuing a uegro named Watson in this (Bulloch) county on the date menfirmed nnd were fired UDon from a house by Watson and another negro, both white men being fatally wounded. The negroes escaped and nothing has been heard from them until now., After the shooting of the two men posses scoured the country, enraged, trying to find the negroes. S. C. Girls at Brenau. Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 19.?States day at Brenau is one of the most interesting of all the fete days. Girls representing the different States vie with each other in trying to have the most beautiful float. This year the governor will be invited to take part in the festivities and many original stunts typical of the States will be indulged in. The following young ladies compose the South Carolina Club: Misses Katherine Furman, president, Clemson; Cecile Ramsey, vicepresident, Greenville; Florence May Klein, Columbia; Nettie Thompson, Pendleton; Emma Bartlow, Greenwood; Jeanette Patz, Bluffton; Rhidona Owens, Cross Hill; Elise Rentz, Eamberg; Mamie F. Garrison, Den ver; Miriam Caubie ana virgma Sondly, Greenwood. Miss Elise Rentz is very popular with both the students and faculty and will take a prominent part in the concerts and recitals to be given during the term. Five Years in Prison. Greenville, Jan. 19.?Five years' hard labor on the chaingang or in the State penitentiary is what Harry Ellis, a negro, will pay for a cup of buttermilk. This was all he secured when he last summer broke into the house of W. J. Ashmore in the southern part of the county. He wras found guilty in the court of general sessions here to-day of housebreak! i or J tmn IVio mini mg ana iarceu,y anu gn cu vuv iu.u. mum sentence. A Wretched Mistake to endure the itching, painful distress of piles. There's no need to. Listen: "I suffered much from piles," writes Will A. Marsh, of Siler City, N. C., "till I got a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and was soon cured." Burns, boils, ulcers, fever sores, eczema, cuts, chapped hands, chilblains, vanish before it. 25c at Peoples Drug Store, Bamberg, S. C. FOUL MURDER UNEARTHED. Headless and Mutilated Rody of YV man Found in Chicago. Chicago, 111., Jan. 20.?One of tl most atrocious murders in the polii history of Chicago was unearthed t day when the decapitated and mut lated body of Anna Furlong, al: known as Jennie Cleghorn, 24 yea old, was found in a resort at 50 We 17th street. Little is known of tl history of the murdered woman, e cept that she came here from S Louis seven months ago and that si was married, but was living apa from her husband. She had been a inmate of the resort for sever; weeks. The head was evidently carrie awy by the murderer in an attem] to conceal the identity of the victir The body was mutilated in a mo; revolting manner. It had been di emboweled. Part of the scalp with a ear hanging to it was found und< the bed. A knife seven inches Ioe with a wooden handle was found coi cealed beneath the mattress. A open trunk showed that perhaps tl murderer had made an attempt 1 copceal the body. A basin of blood water and a newspaper stained wit blood were also in the room. The police have six persons in cu; tody and it said more arrests wi soon be made. Those under arrei are: Tillie Taylor, colored, propriett of the resort; Lilly Dale and Lott; Wilson, said to be inmates; Williai Anderson, a negro hanger-on; Thon as Gildea, a porter in the resort, an John Edwards, an Indian half-bree< According to statements by the w< men in custody the Furlong woma was accustomed to sleep in the r< sort alone. The other women say they left tl house at 1.30 a. m. The street doc was locked, but the door to the w< man's room was unlocked when th body was discovered by Gildea at 1 a. m. The Dale woman admitte that she and the murdered woma had quarreled yesterday and that sh had struck the Furlong woman. How Some Girls Make Money. '*A Pennsylvania girl writes ir that she gathered and washed featl ers and down for a whole year," saj Anna Steese Richardson in Woman Home Companion for Februar; ' The next summer she made it u into pillows, using attractive tickin and chintz, and sold them to guesi at a mountain resort eight mil< away. She offered the pillows at trifle less than asked in city shop but the appeal to the city folks la in the fact that they were real feath< pillows from the country. "A girl who lived in New Jerse; within commuting distance of Ne York, started a hotbed raising fres lettuce and radishes. These si / boldly carried to New York in a su case and sold to oher people worl ing in the office where she was en ployed. To-day that girl has a goo< sized truck-farm, employs sever; hands and does not have to work i a city omce. "Away out in Nebraska a farmer daughter tried to do the same thin; believing that she could induce tt green groceries in the nearest town 1 handle her fresh lettuce and radisl es rather than those shipped in t commission merchants. The dealei were afraid to give her any encou agement. Her supply might not t up to the standard. She might n< raise enough to supply them at then they would not know ho much to expect from her and ho much from the commission me chants! "The girl made a house-to-houf canvass among housewives and o fered them freshly pickled vegetable at the same price they had been pa; ing for the hothouse supply shippe in. She was just brave enough n< to cut under the prices of the loc; grocers. Her list of customers gre\ She came to town three times week. The green grocers discovere that she was cutting into their trad They capitulated. To-day she su] plies them all, sends hothouse pr< ducts to town three times a wee in winter, and garden truck evei day in summer. "Another girl visiting a mea packing plant was told by the guic of the poor quality of aprons fu nished the butchers. She bold offered to provide aprons of bett< material and appealed to the pu chasing agent and got her chance A Wild Blizzard Raging brings danger, suffering?often deal ?to thousands, who take cold coughs and lagrippe?that terror < winter and spring. Its danger si nals are "stuffed up," nostrils, lowi part of nose sore, chills and feve pain in back of head, and a throa gripping cough. When grip attack as you value your life, don't deh rrQ+ + ir>or "Hr Twine's Vpw Discover 5^1111153 ?0 ~ "One bottle cured me," writes A. 1 Dunn, of Pine Valley, Miss., "aft being 'laid up' three weeks wi grip." For sore lungs, hemorrhage coughs, colds, whooping cough, bro chitis, asthma, its supreme. 50c, $ Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Stoi Bamberg, S. C. { SPENT $10,000 IN A MONTH u_ Money Went for "Joy Rides" f Champagne. The detention home at Los An ie les, Cal., on Monday ended a sig ce seeing trip of two young Canad ?" girls from Hamilton, Ont., who d -1" ing their stay there, were the gue 50 of a man who bought $10,0u0 wo rs of "joy rides" and champagne ii st month. The girls are Stella ? ie Ruth Smith, aged 17 and 15. T1 x" were arrested with two men, who ; '** now in the city prison facing sta 16 tory charges. The girls told the police they ca in under the protection of a friend al their father and that this friend 1 inherited a small fortune. The f i(* tune lasted just 30 days. Then 1 friend disappeared, leaving the gi Q* penniless and at the mercy, acco 8t ing to their story, of the men arr? s" ed with them. m m ... jr Sandbag Man Kills Himself. ig New York, January 20.?Fred i- ick Boettcher, a Brooklyn jewel .n was sandbagged and fatally shot ie his store late this afternoon by to unknown man, who ended his life [y taking a capsule of carbolic acid ;h fore he could be locked up. Bo< cher identified his assailant as a no s- who came to his store not long ? 11 and looked at some diamond rin 3t It was on this plea that the strani entered to-day, presumably with 1 jr intent of robbery. When the jew ie er started to come from behind 1 m counter the stranger pulled a cham 1- bag, filled with sand and shot, fr d his coat pocket and stiuck a bl i. on the head. As Boettcher ree > the man fired a shot at him, wh ,n took effect behind the jeweler's 1 2- ear. The shot brought Mrs. Boettcl ie down from her apartments over 1 >r store, and the man fled, leaving c y. revolver in the store and throwi ie another away as he ran along 1 0 street. Hard pressed by the poli ;d who had been attracted by M n Boettcher's screams, the would ie robber was seen to raise his hands his lips and swallow hastily. In moment more he was under am and though apparently suffering, walked back to the store, wh< ie Boettcher identified him as his sailant. rS The prisoner was taken to 1 'S police station and preparations w< y. begun to search him. Here he c p lapsed and died before medical g sistance could be summoned. 1 ts amination by a surgeon later show beyond doubt that he had swallow a carbolic acid in a capsule form. Sj Nothing was found on the man iy indicate his identity. His attempt ;r robbery was a complete failure. Union Meetings. y, ^ Union meetings of the Barnw Baptist Association January 2! ie and 30th. !t DOUBLE POND?SATURDAY. Introductory Sermon Rev. B. Allen, 11 o'clock. Subject No. 1. The Need of a 1 al emphasi^ of Spiritual Regenerati n Converted Church Membership, s , Spiritual Life in our Churches. I 8 by Rev. J. D. Pitts, and followed general discussion. 16 Subject No. 2. . The General 0 10 look Before us this Year; or 1 Claims of Local and Denominatio: ,y Work for 1910. Led by F. M. H; rs ser, followed by general discussio: r" SUNDAY. )e At 10 a. m. in connection w d Sunday-school exercises a gene discussion of Sunday-school Ide?' w led by Rev. J. K. Hair. W Sermon by Rev. J. E. Freeman ra. m. SEIGLING?SATURDAY. ^ Introductory Sermon by Rev. J. Goode. Subject No. 1. As above. I ^ by Rev. J. Hopkins. Subject No. 2. As above. Led 1 W. G. Britton. 1 SUNDAY. v. At 10 o'clock, Sunday-school c cussiion as above. Led by Dr. J. ' McCormack, of Olar, followed general discussion. At 11 o'clock sermon by Rev. D, C. Baxley. [ r WILLISTON?SATURDAY. Introductory Sermon by R. P. G t_ Pin. Subject No. 1. The Tempo Concerns and Interest of a Lo rjv Church; or the Secular Side Church Life and Service. Scripti 2r r_ History and Emphasis. Measur: ? Ourselves by it. Led by R. M. Mix followed by general discussion. Subject No. 2. The Tempo Needs and Demands of the Kingdc "S) Common to all the Churches; or, - c /"n- ; ~ .-.nr. nonnminatinnnl \V< (J! V-lCtXIlia U1 UUI WUViUiu?i.?uuu. ... S" and Institutions, and the True er titude of the Local Churches to r, t_ same. Led by W. M. Jones, I :s, lowed by general discussion. SUNDAY. At 10 o'clock, in connection w regular Sunday-school, general < th cussion of Sunday-school Ideals. !S> At 11 o'clock, sermon. Office * Work of a Deacon. ,e> v 0. J. FRIER, For Program Committee .7 ipi II IOBI IBI Bargains in Real Estate, etc. ! geialn Farms in small and large tracts, town lots , ur- and residences, mercantile businesses, j vli II mill sites, sale stables, and pole and tie i i a H propositions, at low figures and on easy I ^ Ipv II terms. Descriptive list sent on applica- | are 11 tlon- Cal1 on or Write, 11 ill J. T. O'NEAL 1 of M Real Estate Agent Bamberg, S. C. VI '0ard gj n the ==ss it Southern States Supply Co. 561 H. L. HARVEY, President. m l: c.. i i riuiuuiug juppiicsj ? 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